Sentences with phrase «synthetic drug overdoses»
As Rep. John Katko testified before a House subcommittee today, he shared the stories of young central New Yorkers whose lives were cut short due to opioid or synthetic drug overdoses.
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Town Police Chief Sinagra reports there have been no cases of synthetic drug overdoses in the past year.
As U.S. Rep. John Katko testified before a House subcommittee Wednesday, he shared the stories of young central New Yorkers whose lives were cut short due to opioid or synthetic drug overdoses.
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The synthetic opioid fentanyl is so powerful that it could cause accidental overdoses in the very first responders who trying to save its victims, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) warned in new guidelines released Tuesday.
The governor said the U.S. is losing 64,000 people a year to drug overdoses, in large part because of synthetic fentanyl.
According to emergency responders, as a result of the local ban on synthetic drugs and bath salts, (voted into law by the Saugerties Town Board on March 29, 2012), hospitalizations resulting from overdoses caused by the use of these substances have been significantly reduced.
Following a police raid Wednesday on five Brooklyn bodegas after a wave of suspected overdoses of synthetic marijuana, Cuomo today announced stepped - up enforcement efforts to crack down on the illegal sale of the drug known as K2.
The Syracuse Rescue Mission dealt with another surge of drug overdoses from synthetic marijuana in late May.
The surge in drug overdoses is driven mostly by the improper use of opioids — prescription painkillers, heroin, and increasingly, synthetic drugs like fentanyl.
According to the CDC, drug overdose deaths from synthetic opioids like fentanyl increased by 72 per cent between 2014 and 2015.
Drug overdoses are taking a huge toll on public health, with potent synthetic drugs posing a particular threat.
A Bethlehem man was convicted Thursday in federal court of selling synthetic fentanyl to an Orlando - area man whose fiancee fatally overdosed on the drug.
The pills contained the synthetic opioid fentanyl — which is responsible for a number of drug overdose deaths worldwide.